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35??? Thirty-damned-five???? Gc, I've got CONDITIONS that are older than that!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> And yes: "I just dropped in 2 see what condition my condition was in! Yeah, yeah, whoah yeah... what condition my condition was in!" -ol' 2long
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As for me...
Oh doctor
Please help me
I'm damaged
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Hi Gray,
Happy Birthday.
Happy Trails.
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I think sometimes about all the pain in the world. I hope we can ease that here, even if only a little bit.
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May the road rise with you GC.
Happy birthday !
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Add the envelope from my birthday card to the fire. You'll keep the card, right? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> So, HAPPY B-DAY TO YOU, GC. It's a might fine thing to be 35! -AD
A guy, 50. Divorced in 2005.
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Happy Birthday Gray. You are a good man. Your time will come again. I promise you that.
There is some sweet young thing out there right now who will love you like you deserve to be loved. Lucky girl.
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Congrats GC......few more years and you'll have to be careful not to sit on your own balls.
BS 42 S-10 D-5
D-day 03NOV14
Plan B - 04Jul22
Filed(me) - 05May13 Final - 06Mar16
"When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."
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Happy Birthday GC! One of my favorite movie lines from "Someone Like You..."
"Time wounds all heals."
Thought you'd like the irony of that one....
Hang in there, and there's no doubt that someday you will meet the right one....you'll know when.
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Binder, where's that promised update?
I hope you're okay.
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Too cool. Tonight I bought myself a little gift - Elie Wiesel's Night. A tiny gift, in $, and a sad story, but I think a good present.
I bought the kid who's leaving for Germany this week a gift too. He's the son of a friend who didn't have to reach out to me this past year, but who did anyway. I'll deliver it tomorrow after work.
I went out for sushi with a few chums. Our waitress was someone who used to work at a pub where we were regulars. Last time I was at this place, she and I chatted a bit, but I'd forgotten her name. I asked her again tonight, and we talked a little more. She's beautiful and very nice. I doubt she's interested. But after my recent missteps and doubts, just asking for her name was a speed bump to navigate. Her name is Moon. Anyway...
As I was on my way home, one of the friends I'd had dinner with called to tell me he'd just gotten engaged. He didn't bring it up at dinner because he wanted to tell me first. That was some gift.
Thanks everyone. You made me tear up. Especially Binder with that scary description of where my package is headed.
Things are quiet, and uncertain, but more or less look okay for now.
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Gray - I read that book about 7 years ago, when my son was reading it for a highschool class. It is absolutely haunting. I still remember the scene where the child was being hung, and someone remarked "Where is God?"
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Believer - Where is God? is one of the greatest questions I struggle with.
I think I might have told this story before. A few years ago, my XSFIL (ex-step-father-in-law) and I went together to a barbershop in a small town. While we waited, two women came in with several mentally disabled men. The men were all middle-aged, and were profoundly disabled. Helpless. As XSFIL put it, "Those guys are in rough shape."
The women were nuns. Caring for these men was what they did with their lives.
It was one time in my life when I thought, If there's a God, he's in this room.
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Well, Gray, I am a devout Christian. When I read Elie Wiesel's Night, I had a crisis of faith. I hope you read the book though. It is excellent.
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The women were nuns. Caring for these men was what they did with their lives.
It was one time in my life when I thought, If there's a God, he's in this room.
GC Yeah, I know what you mean. My Mom had a professor in grad school (seminary, actually). He and his wife had a profoundly retarded adult son. They pushed him all over the campus, took care of his every need. That son died - when he was in his mid-sixties and they were in their nineties. They took care of him for his entire life. That's love, the real thing. Nobody but God knows the depths of it. -AD
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Gray - happy birthday, bro!
Hope is was fun.
I see God when I look into the eyes of my children. Maybe someday you will find that pair of eyes that helps you see Him.
Anyway - Happy Birthday. May your week be filled with great music.
far
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D: March 2006 (xw - multiple a's)
I have found a NEW REASON!!!!
A Treasure!!
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FAR... thank you thank you thank you. G'night.
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It was one time in my life when I thought, If there's a God, he's in this room. GC, I am in the presence of God every day when I am with my son. No one has a closer connection to Him than the innocent like DS. I pray you find Him in your life.
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